Dallmann Seamount
| Dallmann Seamount | ||
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| height | 2100 m below sea level | |
| location | Southern ocean | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 96 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Dallmann Seamount is an undersea mountain in the Southern Ocean . It is located 500 kilometers north of the Eights coast of the Antarctic continent and 300 kilometers northwest of Peter I Island . Its shallowest depth is 2100 meters below sea level.
The mountain was named after the German explorer and polar explorer Eduard Dallmann (1830-1896). Dallmann explored the area west of Graham Land up to 66 ° south latitude . The name was proposed by Rick Hagen of the Alfred Wegener Institute and adopted by the Advisory Committee for Undersea Features in June 1997 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dallmann Seamount ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved May 15, 2013.
- ^ Marine Regions - Dallmann Seamount (Seamount (s)). In: marineregions.org. Flanders Marine Institute, April 23, 2016, accessed February 16, 2017 .